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Scythed. Gwen Gale (talk) 07:09, 8 March 2009 (UTC)

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I recently drafted a proposal for a Worker's Rights & Labor Issues WikiProject ... I thought you might be interested, since you are working on the Anarchism project ...

Cheers! Jrtayloriv (talk) 05:18, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

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Disruptive user

Hi Gwen Gale this user (User talk:216.241.250.30) keeps changing the birthdate of Kerry Washington. Her birthdate is clearly cited from a very reliable source, but this unregistered user keeps changing it. I think this is like the 5th time in the past 2 or 3 days. I was thinking have the person blocked for a certain amount of time. Have a good a day.Mcelite (talk) 00:45, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

May not be you-know-who but please feel free to keep me up on this. Gwen Gale (talk) 01:13, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Poetic jousting for milady's amusement :)

(...) -- (Queen's knight/patroller) aka Proofreader77 (talk) 07:15, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

See besom :) Gwen Gale (talk) 01:14, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Perhaps a more powerful prophylactic than necessary against evil at the level of "dinnae pu' ya brother's hair, ya wee besom" :) ... but how I loved the page. -- Proofreader77 (talk) 02:35, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

PS VERSE: The besom, as muse, inspired a much improved closing couplet. As always, my thanks milady. :) Proofreader77 (talk) 16:11, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Can't help thinking, if this were a video game she'd be about to lop off his head :( Gwen Gale (talk) 12:24, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

PS (follow-up) God as Imaginary friend

Before I could get back to the page and revert with one of your elegant suggestions, someone else had reverted with an edit summary "(Sounds like Atheist weasel words)", which is certainly amusing, but the revertee was not quite satisfied with that explanation. :)

NOTE: Interesting 2nd response ... cleverly referencing the hymn "What a Friend We Have in Jesus." lol Good one. Proofreader77 (talk) 02:44, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

I've commented on the talk page. If someone wants to link/muddle these two notions in a sentence, they need only source it (not an easy task, I think, I can't recall ever stumbling across a halfway reliable source in any field which does this, as I hinted earlier). Gwen Gale (talk) 12:04, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

I smiled (but regretfully) at the ip editor's edit summary. I had planned to use your option about "original research" in my reversion edit summary. (I thought about undoing the ip-editor's and replacing it with mine, but hesitated for some reason (etiquette of some kind, I suppose).

IN ANY CASE, didn't mean to cause you spending time there. Excuse me, and thank you. :) BIG PICTURE: Another one of those "small" things, which struck me as "worth pondering awhile." re: "license" to revert Proofreader77 (talk) 16:04, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

BROAD ISSUE: reverting correct removals with inappropriate edit summaries

Just noting that I didn't have a "policy" for this. (Hence my reversion, then undoing myself, asking opinion, etc.) New edit, not that one. lol

My "policy" is now ...

• to revert edits (even if correct action) if they have an "inappropriate" edit summary.
• THEN restore the removal with an appropriate edit summary.

Does that sound right to you? Proofreader77 (talk) 18:24, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

It's ok to do that if the edit summary is truly untowards, but maybe not worth your time. Now and then I've undone/reverted an edit which might have been ok had not the edit summary shown the thinking behind it (without putting it back). Gwen Gale (talk) 23:21, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

(Stopping myself before getting into a long philosophical discussion. lol) Thanks, again. (And special bristles for Besom:) Proofreader77 (talk) 00:17, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

They still wield twig besoms on the streets where I live, nothing beats 'em for sweepin' stuff off concrete :) Gwen Gale (talk) 12:26, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

(see my pretty new clothes)

• User:Proofreader77
  
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(p.s. kneeling figure is semi-protected from game "surprises,"
by a miniature besom stuck in his back pocket ...
or, um, somewhere.)
-- :) Proofreader77 (talk) 15:44, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

picture requests?

Hullo. I wondered whether there was somewhere I could 'request' images for an article? Is that something that happens on Wikipedia? the roof of this court is too high to be yours (talk) 00:57, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Hey. See Wikipedia:Image_requests. Gwen Gale (talk) 01:05, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Thankee. the roof of this court is too high to be yours (talk) 01:07, 11 March 2009 (UTC)

Please block this person: Jimintheatl

The user Jimintheatl keeps reverting my edit on the Article for Sean Hannity. If you check the history, this person keeps replacing my edit with a version that contains quotes of left-wing media marring Mr. Hannity. There are no quotes from right-wing media to balance it. Encyclopedias are supposed to be unbiased, and the version that Jimintheatl keeps posting is clearly biased. I have a feeling that this person has the article on his watchlist and will continue to revert my balancing effort. I just undid his revisions, but I am sure that it will be reverted soon. I apologize for my lack of wikiformating, because it is difficult for me to remember all of the different tags.

Thank you, JRH95 (talk) 19:12, 13 March 2009 (UTC)